THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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GreyQueen wrote: »

I'd never harm a child, stand by while someone else harmed a child, nor ever cause a kid a moment's stress or anxiety (in fact, children quite like me for some reason, perhaps because I don't fawn on them) but I prefer to avoid the little [STRIKE]bli[/STRIKE] ooops! little darlings whenever I can.

Mind you, I'd go out of my way to meet someone's cat's new kittens, so clearly have a mis-wired maternal circuit which is drawn to things four-footed, fluffy and nappy-free.

I am the exact opposite, i would never harm an animal etc. but don't go out of my way to meet them. i just ... don't really get it. Though I can see the comedy value in them, from a distance.

I wouldn't choose to change the nappy of someone else's baby / toddler though...:eek:

GreyQueen

I was baby-sitting. If there hadn't been money changing hands, I'd never have gone anywhere near the sprog.:p

moneyistooshorttomention

I've managed to get through till my 60s without ever changing a nappy, holding a child for more than about 2 minutes or feeding a child:D

I think I've probably had less "You'll change your mind" comments than some when I announced long ago I'd never have children. Though I wish I'd thought up years ago the "Put firm look on face and say very firmly "It's none of your business" " that I've evolved in very recent years about a very different issue.

I've just been waiting for the next person-with-a-death-wish to make comments they shouldnt since I thought that response up:rotfl::p:rotfl:.

But....kittens - awwwww:)

thriftwizard

As the closest thing to Nanny Ogg on the SHTF thread, I have to say that the delights of nappy-changing definitely aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. That said, I did quite enjoy the company of my own kids (still do, in case any of ‘em are reading this) but find other people’s best enjoyed in small doses. I always knew I wanted 3 kids, but that plan got a bit disrupted when we discovered that no. 4 had sneaked in there at the same time. After that, no. 5 wasn’t too much of a shock & just got trailed along everywhere in the wake of the other 4.

I too have faced a number of comments about my reproductive choices; suffice it to say that I don’t often attend Friends of the Earth meetings any longer. But I probably shouldn’t have asked which ones they’d like me to send back...

PS - for those merely passing by, no, we don’t live on benefits in a 15-bed council house... no benefits, own house.

GreyQueen

You can claim the 2.4 kiddos (or whatever it's supposed to be) that I never had, thriftwizard. Averaged out across the non-breeding women of our generation, it's probably about that each. You just imagined you had five of your own, some of them are loaners.:rotfl:

Except some of us have skived off, slept through the night and - umm, I was going to say kept our figures, then I contemplated my own and thought better of that remark.:D

GQ; they said she had the body of a young woman. She wouldn't say where she'd buried it, but she definately had it somewhere.

I am now going off to eat a steak. Definately no admission to the FOE chattering classes for this heathen omnivore........ laters, GQ x

DigForVictory

I got very lucky, had three sons (couldn't have planned that better) & even a husband who took a career break to stay home & rock the cradle.

Net result, I have 3 hulking great teenage lads who are their mothers joy, with all the hard work done by their dad. OK husband's still home while youngest is 15, but with eldest's epilepsy having a parent on call 24/7 is worth working full time to support.

It works for us - but ye gods had anyone told me to do this & I'd have *bitten* them.

maryb

Lol, DH only ever changed one nappy in the space of two children. But I let him off because he was much better than me at dealing with vomit, especially at two o'clock in the morning. And we both feel we got the better part of the deal

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

One life is all we get, the courage to live it in your own way is beyond value

I agree.

Go and do the things you want to do.

Live a life worth remembering.

There's an old saying:-

A ship in harbour is safe, but that's not what ships are for.

jk0

Ratty's back, as GQ predicted. I can hear him chewing under my kitchen units. There are still the bait boxes there, left untouched by last year's rats. Any thoughts?

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

Ratty's back, as GQ predicted. I can hear him chewing under my kitchen units. There are still the bait boxes there, left untouched by last year's rats. Any thoughts?

Get a pro pest controller in asap, is my advice. A rat's reproductive cycle is unbelievably fast - under a month. I hear so many of the public who've got rats every which way indoors, turns out the first one was seen 3 months prior, they didn't deal (or deal effectively) with the first and then they soon had many more.

As well as being insanitary, they chew on your fixtures and fittings and can even chew thru lead pipes. I still occasionally think of the sparkie, sent into one of our houses to investigate loss of supply to the upstairs lighting circuit - poor beggar opened the loft hatch and a mama rat launched herself at his face.......... gak. He was left badly-shaken and we had to get the vermin sorted before we could get the electrics mended (they'd chewed thru the cables).

At this time of year, lots of householders are venturing into the lofts for the first time in months to fetch decorations and trees down and finding some unwelcome guests as well as various roofing problems.

If you're going to be doing this errand soon, might be a good idea to do it in daylight hours if possible, so you can see daylight thru any slipped tiles that may be there, it's sometimes easier than spotting a slip from the outside.

Here endeth today's nag.:rotfl: